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recommended рекомендуем the don t lose lukashenko approach kyiv s non strategic ambiguity toward the belarusian opposition boris ginzburg february 23 2026 our mission the program on new approaches to research and security in eurasia ponars eurasia is a network of over 125 academics mainly from north america and post soviet eurasia advancing new approaches to research on security politics economics and society in russia and eurasia its core missions are to connect scholarship to policy on and in russia and eurasia and to foster a community especially of mid career and rising scholars committed to developing policy relevant and collaborative research policy memos view misconceptions about eastern europe the caucasus and central asia and their impact on policy tomila lankina kelly mcmann mariya omelicheva emil dzhuraev paul goode nona shahnazarian ivan gomza and guzel yusupova august 26 2026 view five years into the war ukraine is showing grittiness rebounding confidence in war fortunes henry hale serhii dembitskyi and mikhail alexseev july 27 2026 view russia s wartime internet a contested space with the regime still predominant irina busygina and mikhail filippov june 24 2026 view why georgians need to take hungarian lessons stephen f jones may 18 2026 view the don t lose lukashenko approach kyiv s non strategic ambiguity toward the belarusian opposition boris ginzburg february 23 2026 view too much too late the impact of secrecy on efforts to mediate an end to the russia ukraine war mikhail troitskiy february 23 2026 view a deal with the devil lukashenko navigates domestic and external vulnerabilities in managing relations with russia ryhor nizhnikau and arkady moshes february 9 2026 view peacemaking russian style negotiations as the continuation of war by other means pavel baev january 26 2026 view diy warfare how russia crowdsources the battlefield in ukraine mariya omelicheva january 26 2026 recommended view misconceptions about eastern europe the caucasus and central asia and their impact on policy tomila lankina kelly mcmann mariya omelicheva emil dzhuraev paul goode nona shahnazarian ivan gomza and guzel yusupova august 26 2026 image credit license russia s full scale invasion of ukraine in february 2022 led to an active discussion in the scholarly and policy communities about approaches to studying the states in eastern europe scholars in ukraine were especially vocal in raising concerns about widespread misconceptions in the west that compromised not only sound scholarly analysis but also effective view five years into the war ukraine is showing grittiness rebounding confidence in war fortunes henry hale serhii dembitskyi and mikhail alexseev july 27 2026 image credit license from early 2025 ukraine s war fortunes were looking increasingly dim the united states stopped direct financial and military assistance while hungary kept blocking or delaying european support for ukraine meanwhile ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky was publicly scolded in the white house even though kyiv accepted u s president donald trump s 30 day view russia s wartime internet a contested space with the regime still predominant irina busygina and mikhail filippov june 24 2026 image credit license as the war in ukraine rages russia s internet specifically the messaging app telegram remains a politically contested space providing benefits both to the regime and to opposition and autonomous civic actors the latter are stronger in terms of engagement and critically benefit from horizontal networking while the former has the advantage in scale mobilization view why georgians need to take hungarian lessons stephen f jones may 18 2026 image credit license bidzina ivanishvili georgia s richest man and the de facto leader of the ruling georgian dream party has suffered a political setback on april 12 prime minister victor orbán one of ivanishvili s staunchest allies within the european union lost the hungarian national parliamentary election earlier orban had vetoed proposed eu sanctions against georgia s view the don t lose lukashenko approach kyiv s non strategic ambiguity toward the belarusian opposition boris ginzburg february 23 2026 image credit license after the regime of belarusian president alexander lukashenko provided logistical support to the kremlin in its war of aggression against ukraine launched in february 2022 one might have expected the ukrainian government to seek closer cooperation with the belarusian opposition in exile however even though both sides had now seemingly come to share a common enemy view too much too late the impact of secrecy on efforts to mediate an end to the russia ukraine war mikhail troitskiy february 23 2026 image credit license after donald trump s reelection as u s president in november 2024 his team quietly reached out to russia and even more quietly to ukraine to explore an end to the russia ukraine war the mediation effort was initially kept entirely behind the scenes by late spring 2025 however it could no longer be concealed emerging as a major focus of u s foreign policy and view a deal with the devil lukashenko navigates domestic and external vulnerabilities in managing relations with russia ryhor nizhnikau and arkady moshes february 9 2026 image credit license since russia s invasion of ukraine in february 2022 belarus russia relations have been an issue of rather little interest for outside observers the new parameters of the bilateral alliance that emerged as a result of their co aggression against ukraine qualitatively solidified russia s dominance in belarus yet alexander lukashenko s autonomy in domestic view peacemaking russian style negotiations as the continuation of war by other means pavel baev january 26 2026 image credit license there is more to the kremlin s maneuvering around the seemingly unproductive efforts at achieving peace in ukraine than just an intention to placate an increasingly impatient u s president donald 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society russia s 2021 census and the kremlin s nationalities policy lipman series 2021 december 9 2021 in this week s ponars eurasia podcast maria lipman chats with social scientist andrey shcherbak about the quality of the data collected in the recent population census and the goals of vladimir putin s government s nationalities policy active citizens of any kind are under threat lipman series 2021 november 5 2021 in this week s ponars eurasia podcast maria lipman chats with alexander verkhovsky about the kremlin s ever expanding toolkit against political and civic activists journalists and other dissidents latest view policy memos аналитика recommended рекомендуем misconceptions about eastern europe the caucasus and central asia and their impact on policy tomila lankina kelly mcmann mariya omelicheva emil dzhuraev paul goode nona shahnazarian ivan gomza and guzel yusupova august 26 2026 view policy memos аналитика recommended рекомендуем five years into the war ukraine is showing grittiness rebounding confidence in war fortunes henry hale serhii dembitskyi and mikhail alexseev july 27 2026 view policy memos аналитика recommended рекомендуем russia s wartime internet a contested space with the regime still predominant irina busygina and mikhail filippov june 24 2026 view policy memos аналитика recommended рекомендуем why georgians need to take hungarian lessons stephen f jones may 18 2026 view policy memos аналитика recommended рекомендуем the don t lose lukashenko approach kyiv s non strategic ambiguity toward the belarusian opposition boris ginzburg february 23 2026 view policy memos аналитика recommended рекомендуем too much too late the impact of secrecy on efforts to mediate an end to the russia ukraine war mikhail troitskiy february 23 2026 view policy memos аналитика recommended рекомендуем a deal with the devil lukashenko navigates domestic and external vulnerabilities in managing relations with russia ryhor nizhnikau and arkady moshes february 9 2026 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